From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756551Ab0ERFzk (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 01:55:40 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:56006 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752881Ab0ERFzg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2010 01:55:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 22:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100517.225544.85428189.davem@davemloft.net> To: julia@diku.dk Cc: sbhatewara@vmware.com, pv-drivers@vmware.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/20] drivers/net/vmxnet3: Use kzalloc From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 22:05:40 +0200 (CEST) > From: Julia Lawall > > Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset. > > The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @@ > expression x,size,flags; > statement S; > @@ > > -x = kmalloc(size,flags); > +x = kzalloc(size,flags); > if (x == NULL) S > -memset(x, 0, size); > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Applied.